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‘The Matrix’ Director Lilly Wachowski Says Hollywood Won’t Finance New Film With Trans Cast
Lilly Wachowski has said that Hollywood financiers have declined to back her new dystopian political thriller, The Hunted, because it has an entirely trans cast. Her comments highlight the difficulty of securing mainstream funding for stories centred on underrepresented and marginalised communities, despite interest in the script itself. The film has an estimated budget of…
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Air traffic controllers head says hiring gamers will help
Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, commended the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Wednesday for its recent hiring surge targeting video game players. Daniels told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company, that gaming skills “absolutely” translate to working as an air traffic controller and called the FAA’s move an “innovative approach to capture…
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5 Years Later, Prime Video’s Best Hard Sci-Fi Show Is Still Unmatched
The article argues that *The Expanse* remains an unusually strong example of hard science-fiction television five years after its conclusion. Originally broadcast on Syfy before moving to Prime Video, the series adapts James S. A. Corey’s novels and follows the crew of the Rocinante as conflicts across the Solar System widen into a much larger…
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The Movie Quentin Tarantino Called “One of the Great Westerns” Is Officially Streaming Uncut
Sergio Corbucci’s 1968 spaghetti Western The Great Silence is now streaming uncut on MUBI using a restored 2K transfer. The release matters because the film, long difficult for American audiences to see in a high-quality version, is regarded as a major work of the genre and a clear influence on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.…
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9 Spy Shows Where Every Episode Is a Masterpiece
Collider highlights nine spy series it considers consistently excellent, arguing that the genre works best when espionage exposes personal compromise, mistrust and emotional cost rather than relying solely on gadgets or action. – ‘Slow Horses’ (2022–present): The article singles out Apple TV’s six-episode seasons, led by Gary Oldman as disgraced MI5 operatives’ abrasive boss Jackson…
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The 1978 album Nuno Bettencourt thought was out of this world: “It might as well have been a spaceship”
Literally out of this world. The post The 1978 album Nuno Bettencourt thought was out of this world: “It might as well have been a spaceship” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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Hollywood’s Top-Grossing Films of 2025 Show Limited Progress Toward Inclusion, Study Says: ‘The Pace of Change Has Been Slow’
A new Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study finds that Hollywood made only limited progress on representation in its 100 top-grossing films of 2025, with many long-standing inequalities remaining both on screen and behind the scenes. The researchers say the findings matter because, despite nearly two decades of measurement and advocacy, improvements have been incremental rather than…
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RÜFÜS DU SOL Plan to Lay Low For ‘A Solid Amount of Time’
RÜFÜS DU SOL have said they will take an extended break from touring once their current Inhale / Exhale World Tour ends, returning only when they have new music to promote. The announcement matters because it follows a particularly successful global run that has set several milestones for the Australian electronic trio. Frontman Tyrone Lindqvist…
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Limited Run Announces Lord Of The Rings: War In The North Physical Release
Limited Run Games has confirmed that it will release a physical edition of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition, following Aspyr’s recent revival of the game for Switch, Switch 2 and other platforms. The announcement matters to collectors and players who prefer boxed games, although pricing, editions and release…
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Twitch users can now block Amazon from using their content to train AI
Twitch has introduced an option allowing users to prevent Amazon from using their channel content to train generative AI models, after confirming that such material had been collected by default. The move matters because it gives streamers greater control over streams, clips, images and chat content, while also highlighting growing opposition to technology companies using…